That ride is great for saying "yeah, I've been on the tallest, fastest roller coaster in the world" but not much else. It is a very short ride, that one hill is the majority of the ride.
Cactus House (Rotterdam, Netherlands)
"This housing design was created to maximize each apartment's outdoor space and indoor sunlight. The splaying stack of slabs creates big terraces for gardening and the irregular shape allows sun to enter from multiple angles. "
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this page on the AOL website.I looked up the architect(s) and here is something on another website about them commenting on another building of their's which I thought was spiffy:
"Adrenalin Tower by UCX Architects
UCX architects is a Rotterdam architecture office with a clear vision and ambition, founded by Ben Huygen and Jasper Jägers.
UCX designs, researches and gives substance to contemporary problems on architectonic, urban and landscape affairs and contribute with that to the cultivation and enrichment of the environment we all live in.
Projects by UCX are characterized by a propositional clarity, where by each building seems to arise from itself.
According to UCX, enrichment arises by adding emotion and drama.
The crux of the profession is to make something with character and soul.
Enrichment can also arise by accent one detail or aspect of a building.
At this way new shapes out of known elements will be made.
The starting-point for each design is the idea.
Image is as much important as graphic.
The bigger the scale, how more spectacular this combination of idea, image and emotion can be.
Adrenalin Tower by UCX architects assumes that maximum relaxation is brought by an adrenalin-rush.
Joining different levels of speed and heights is the base for the whole idea of this luna park.
A range of possibilities is presented to challenge gravity.
Water elevators, climbing walls, snow elevators, mountainbike elevators and escalators bring in a continues cycle of adrenalin producing rising and fal
more: www.ucxarchitects.com/ucxarchitec... (913)"
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